

She’ll also be performing songs from across her career, including her new single, “Midnight Sky.”īut back to the covers, because we know that’s what you’re here for: Cyrus continues her run as one of pop’s best cover artists, taking on songs from Hall & Oates’ “Maneater” to Billie Eilish’s “my future” and just recently released her raw cover of Blondie’s “Heart of Glass” to Spotify. (Just last year, she covered Temple of the Dog’s “Say Hello 2 Heaven” with Pearl Jam’s Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament for a Chris Cornell tribute concert.) When we talk about having the range, this is what we mean.
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The 2015 series saw collaborations with Ariana Grande, Joan Jett, Melanie Safka, and Laura Jane Grace of Against Me! MTV hasn’t released a guest list for the 2020 special but did tease that Cyrus will be covering “Gimme More,” by Britney Spears - as she previously told Will Manning on “The Official Big Top 40” - along with songs by Pearl Jam and the Cardigans. Cyrus previously hinted that she would bring back the performances, which she had uploaded to her YouTube channel in 20. MTV Unplugged Presents Miley Cyrus Backyard Sessions will air on MTV on October 16 at 7 p.m. She leans furthest back into her Tennessee roots, appropriately, on her collaboration with the wonderful Brandi Carlile, a troubadour’s tale of acceptance titled “Thousand Miles.You’ll want your MTV when you hear about this: Miley Cyrus is once again reviving her popular “Backyard Sessions” performances, this time taking them to MTV as a special episode of the channel’s iconic Unplugged series. The chorus of “Wildcard” is one standout, while the entirety of sex-powered waltz fantasy “You” is another. The record is a reminder of that very vocal prowess that has carried Cyrus through so many aforementioned eras. And, thankfully, that’s what happens throughout most of the album.
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Endless Summer Vacation, though, comes absolutely alive in the moments when Cyrus lets her trademark vocals fly, unleashing her full power on the listener. The two albums also share a strong perspective and a trust in the central voice telling the story. In some ways, Endless Summer Vacation recalls Kacey Musgraves’ Golden Hour not in the themes, necessarily, seeing as Musgraves’ beloved LP was about reveling in a love that feels like it will never end, but in its genre-fluidity. “I wanna cut off my hair and kick off my boots/ Dance in the wind just to do it again,” she sings on “You.” Give us more Miley Cyrus is taking on Britney Spears ‘ 2007 hit Gimme More for her Miley Cyrus Backyard Sessions special edition of MTV Unplugged airing Friday (Oct. It feels richer and broader than that, a general story of reset and rediscovery that encourages the listener to indulge in their own whims. It’s no secret that some of the album (the record-breaking “Flowers” in particular) was inspired by Cyrus’ divorce, but it doesn’t feel strictly like a breakup record. Listening through the album feels like living a few days in sunny SoCal with Miley: Waking up with “Flowers,” taking a top-down beachside drive accompanied by “Rose Colored Lenses,” falling in love under the moonlight with “You,” stumbling in and out of the club to “Handstand” and “River,” and then starting the process all over again with the latter half of the LP. Cyrus describes Endless Summer Vacation, on the other hand, as her “love letter to LA,” and that vision is evident in every corner of the record. Credit: Vijat Mohindra/MTV VMAs 2020 and Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic Miley Cyrus ’ 2014 cover of Arctic Monkeys.

This era follows Cyrus’ Plastic Hearts, a 2020 rock-forward project that boasted collaborations with Joan Jett and Stevie Nicks. By Greta Brereton 16th October 2020 Miley Cyrus and the Arctic Monkeys. And, if there’s one thematic takeaway from Endless Summer Vacation’s 13 tracks, it’s that she’s never going to allow anyone to dim that light. She’s 30 years old now, but she’s far from settled the fire that has always burned in Miley that makes her so entrancing, alluring, and unpredictable is still going strong. With her new studio album Endless Summer Vacation (out today, March 10th), Cyrus has shared yet another side of herself. Over the past 17 years, since she burst into millions of homes as a young woman who just wanted the best of both worlds, we’ve gotten to know a rebel, a rock star, a pop queen, and a backyard, acoustic girl next door. Maybe it’s because we’ve had the opportunity to be reintroduced to her so many times. There are very few pop artists with the staying power of Miley Cyrus.
